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margin, with three darker fasciae, partly black-dotted, the inner one strongly marked 

 and narrowed at iuner margin ; the intervals with fine lines. 



Underside ochreous tinged with fnlvous ; costa of forewing with regular grey 

 blotches separated by pale intervals minutely dotted with dark ; along subcostal 

 vein a fulvous orange stripe and below it in outer half a lustrous silvery stripe 

 joining the white apical blotch, the outer half of wing above median shining 

 blackish grey ; the brown fasciae plain only on inner margin ; a black cell-spot 

 beyond second fascia ; some black and white streaky scales at end of cell, and 

 beyond it below subcostal vein : hiudwing washed with fulvous; the veins fulvous ; 

 the fascise brown and broken up. 



Head, palpi, forelegs, and shoulders brownisli ; thorax and abdomen shining 

 ochreous ; patagia grey at base ; dorsum with second segment dark grey, the third 

 paler but marked with grey in middle ; prae-anal segments fuscous, fulvous at 

 sides ; anal tufts ochreous. 



Expanse of wings : 22 mm. 



1 S. 



Closely resembling P. nitens Butler, for which it might easily be mistaken. 



23. Siculodes rufistrigata spec. nov. 



Forewing : whitish, covered with minute rufous vermicnlations ; a red-brown 

 curved line at one-fourth, indented on median nervure ; a red-brown submarginal 

 line, thickened at the veins, emitting a spur to outer margin at middle, running 

 to anal angle and connected inwardly with a furcate mark on snbmedian fold 

 beyoud middle ; an ocelloid spot at end of cell ; two submarginal dots below apex 

 and one below vein 4 ; fringe white chequered with rufous ; costal edge red-brown, 

 dotted with white ; costa grey towards base. 



Hindwing : with the red markings thicker and more complicated, forming 

 four or five partially parallel streaks to inner margin. 



Underside whiter, with all the red markings plainer ; costa broadly red-brown 

 for two-thirds ; subcostal and median veins with shining scales. 



Thorax and abdomen white, slightly ringed with rufous ; head wanting. 



Expanse of wings : 22 mm. 



1 a. 



24. Striglina condensata spec. nov. 



S. Fore/vim; : yellow, crossed by rows of fulvous spots between the veins ; 

 the yellow ground-colour is restricted to the basal third of wing and a triangular 

 patch on costa before apex, the outer two-thirds being suffused with greyish black, 

 crossed by lines of deeper spots, the grey scales forming a blotch ou inner margin 

 before anal angle below vein 2 ; a small brown-grey curve close to base and a 

 dark round spot on snbmedian fold beyond it ; fringe dark grey, fulvous-tinged 

 beyond vein 5, where the extreme margin itself is also fulvous. 



Eindwing : with basal fourth yellow, without the dark curved mark ; the 

 suffused outer area not so dark and containing a large diffuse fulvous patch below 

 middle of outer margin, beyoud which the grey fringe is also fulvous ; fringe of 

 inner margin yellowish. 



Underside duller, greyer fulvous, the dark suffusion present only in forewing. 



Head, thorax, abdomen, palpi, pectus, and forelegs fnlvous ; abdomen beneath 

 and the other legs yellow ; penultimate segments of dorsum grey-black ; foretarsi 

 fuscous. 



